John Waynes Alamo is probably my favorite movie of all time. Im a native born Texan who is very Texas Proud! My family came to Texas in December 1835 and received a First Class Land Grant from the Texas/Mexican governments. My ancestor came to Texas with his 2nd wife, brothers, sons, daughters, grandchildren and many more. Some of his sons and brothers came to Texas later. Those who came later had stayed behind in Missouri and Tennessee to sell the properties they had owned and developed. I get choked up when I watch The Alamo, despite watching it often. I think John Wayne did a marvelous job on this movie.

They will NEVER be another like JOHN WAYNE

When we would go to the beach, my Dad didn’t make sand castles. He made the Alamo. A large, scale model including all the buildings that were there in 1836. It would be oriented correctly north and south. People would walk by and comment, and then he would tell the story. Inevitably, there would be a crowd listening to him telling the events leading up to the siege. And all the details of the battle. Pointing out how, where, and when, some of the defenders had fallen. I was always fascinated by the story, and got a history lesson every time we went to Galveston or Padre Island. Viva Tejas!

If ever a film outlived its critics, it was surely john Wayne's THE ALAMO. Warts and all, it remains an achievement. Those who want to know the history might read the books by Lon Tinkle and John Myers Myers, but the mythology lives on, and it is a perfect compliment to the history of the event. Every culture needs its mythology, too. As I've said before, do you want to hear the Beowulf destroyed Grendl and saved the mead hall for the Saxons, or do you want to find out that he hired a good lawyer and served Grendl with an eviction notice?

A Great and good man! He was special. Great respect to Mr John Wayne and his family forever. From Scotland

We could use a lot more John Wayne’s in America today.

I was born in 1955. I have come to the conclusion that in the days of old age, what we have left that is most precious are the memories of our days here. All of my family have left this precious earth and memories of them and my journey here are most precious to me. My father took our family Mom, brother, sister and me to the drive-in movie to see this movie. I treasure it and shall never forget it. I am a Texan from Houston. Im sure there are many from my generation who learned more about Texas history and remembered it because of this movie. And because I love music, Ive heard the music of this movie in my thoughts all of my life. Thank you John Wayne and all of the people who made this film possible. It shall endure

I had the honor of seeing the Alamo in 2011, and just loved walking on that ground. It seemed a sacred place. Hope to visit again one day, before I die.

I visited the Alamo in 1963 and they had a large action painting on the wall showing the battle of the Alamo featuring John Wayne.

Such a work of love - the dedication, tireless effort, skill and attention to the massive production shows what a wonderful, gifted and genuine person was John Wayne! God bless The Duke!

I love this full length version, so many other interesting tidbits that are not in the edited one on my early 90s VHS of The Alamo.

A very outstanding job on an incredibly great historical event! Remember the Alamo!!!!!!

First time I am seeing this. Loved it. The Alamo is my all time favorite movie.

"When legend is greater than reality, so you write the legend". John Ford.

This movie set STILL EXISTS; though it is no longer accessible to the public....it had been a tourist attraction in Bracketville for decades until it was permanently closed about 10 years ago....the buildings and legendary facade are still there....there is a YT video of some guy who managed to talk a security guard into letting him enter and shoot video of the set....very cool stuff

These inside looks at the making are great. This one from the Dukes version of the Alamo , is very interesting . And yes thank a great Upload .

Excellent. My hero, JOHN WAYNE, "DUKE" So many great actors. Thanks

John Wayne aka the Duke John Wayne was the only actor to hold a record of top 5 for 30 years Wayne is a true blood American his films maybe old but there legondary best way to describe the Duke is what he said in a film called fort apatchie At the end a guy said the soliders are forgotten Wayne said your wrong there not forgotten there living and they'll keep on living Well that's what John Wayne dose he lives through every American that watches his films and to me he's a hero God bless you The Duke aka John Wayne

I feel very blessed I actually got to watch "The Alamo" in the Alamo but im lucky that way I live in San Antonio and I cant wait till the screen it again!

The Duke and Maureen Ohara the Quiet man perfection✌️

Out of any movie this one has had the biggest impact on my life. And in 2017 I finally got to see the actual Alamo in San Antonio.

This was made in 1992, almost all of the people in it are now dead. Excellent production.

EXCELLENT!!!! I just returned from a vacation to San Antonio and, to visit the Alamo and walk those sacred grounds and, think about what happenend there so many years ago I am deepely touched and humbled by the sacrifice that all those brave men made in 1836.

Great to see Ken ( Festus ) Curtis during the making of this Movie also etc. May he RIP & is missed also.

John Wayne my hero 🥰😍

thanx, BIG TIME, marlbrouk. this was fascinating. of special interest after I pulled off the shelf a John Ford book last month ,written a few years back, which has a lot on Wayne's having to pacify Ford,his mentor/idol on this picture. while wanting the set to himself, being the director. the dedication to Ken Curtis, AKA Festus Haggen was really classy. and I never saw Denver Pyle do an interview. just great.

Great man John Wayne

Yes! There are many good comments about this "classic American history" story that changed many people...including me when I was 10 years old. I really liked this video special that sure put a lot of new thoughts about how it was made...all the struggles & joys that eventually ended sad with the death of the men who fought for that particular cause: FREEDOM. For many years I wish I had kept all my items that surrounded me in my youthful years when playing & dreaming of The Alamo. Thanks for putting it on KZfaq.

This is the movie that got me interested in the Alamo. Every Texan has an opinion about it.

I saw this at age 5, I was so moved by it I begged my parents to move to Texas of course they wouldn’t, so when I became an adult I did. I’ve never changed. I love it here more now than even then.

Big "Duke Wayne !" Fan... Alamo all time favorite movie!! Saw it when I was 7yrs. old... later in years with my wife we went to Bracketville, Alamo village was so cool!! It was still open to public! Very historical to me. Best John Wayne shrine ever!!

Thanks To Mr. John Wayne GOD BLESS ALAMO GOD BLESS SAN ANTONIO TX WHERE THE REAL ALAMO STILL STANDS STANDING JOHN WAYNE WAS THE BEST ACTER EVER GOD BLESS TEXAS 💗🇺🇸💗

This documentary is also on the Alamo DVD. But the problem with the DVD version is that it's edited down to 40 minutes. That's why I like this one better...it's complete and uncut.

Talking about Crockett waiting to join Travis and Bowie when they decide to stay and die, I asked my father why he thought that he hesitated. His thoughts were that he knew that if he went, his men would and he didn't want to sway their choice.

Great video!! Thank you for posting this. I've only seen screencaps of the parts with Ken Curtis talking :D

I just wish the land owner would let old farts like me come back and see the old town and such. I was there in 1980 and watched a remake of some sort, I have no idea who the people were but I hung around half the day watching it. My father had a cousin that was the care taker there for a while, cant remember his name. I truly enjoyed this.

Saw the movie when it first came out and I was 10. Although often criticized for inaccuracies I still think it is a good movie. Loved the sound track too. My favorite quote is from Lawrence Harvey, "I said GO down, not HOLLER down!".

The movie isn't really historically accurate but its a GREAT movie. Kudos to the Alamo today for telling the story of the battle with great accuracy.

Beautiful soundtrack...... texian girl...great movie..reminds me of old Texas over 55 years ago....Salado Texas

John Wayne, American.

fine doc on the making of the alamo

The Alamo has a great soundtrack.

Well I tell ya, Wayne was one tough pilgrim.

Thanks for posting this video. There is more footage here than on the DVD.

Made it to the front gate of the Alamo Village. It was locked shut. Still have a dream though. Still have a dream.

Thank you for posting and great memories.

The Duke also did " THE GREEN BERETS " Which was a great authentic Story during that Eta also, He is Sadly missed by all of his Fans may he RIP. Thanks for sharing this great Video on " The Alamo "

Michael Wayne just as handsome as his dad 🙏🏻

John Wayne was one of those actors who made you proud to be an American. He was a true patriot. I think if John Wayne had been alive when the Alamo happened that he would have fought and died there.

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Colonel Travis was ordered to destroy the Alamo to deprive the advancing Mexican army of a potential fortress. He disobeyed those orders and chose to stay and defend it. That's why he was not reinforced. The final battle was fought entirely in darkness, starting before dawn. It was over in 30 minutes.

Excellent! Thanks for posting. John Wayne's "The Alamo" is still the greatest motion picture of all time!

IN BRAZIL, WE NEED MANY JOHN WAYNES.

"How can you measure the men?" Hank Worden interviewed! Bud Boetticher! Rudy Robbins! Frankie Avalon! Patrick Wayne! Happy Shahan! Ken Curtis! Linda Cristal! "El Curo" the guitarist - and his wife, dancer Teresa Champion! Wm. Clothier! Fess Parker!! Denver Pyle! Al Ybarra! Governor Bill Daniel! Burt Kennedy! Chuck Haywood! Stunt men! Grips!

Considered a box office failure , how different times must have been in those years for it to have been unsuccessful , I think I first watched it on television in about 1970 as a kid , this really is one of the greatest movies ,definately my favourite Alamo movie

BEST ONE EVER MADE JUST SAW IT AGAIN WOW GREAT MOVIE.

My grandpa said that his dad was in this movie, he says he was a background horse rider

The spirit of John Wayne has a lot to teach the Cancel Culture.

Great documentary - learned a lot of new information. Wayne visited my hometown of Williamsburg, Virginia in 1979, to be in what I believe was his last major television appearance, alongside Perry Como. He was obviously suffering from the effects of years of cigarette smoking, and in this documentary it looks like he has a cigarette in every scene. Nevertheless, this is a fine tribute to the film and the man.

No modern John Wayne...no equivalent.

A few folks commenting on here pointed out that the movie had inaccuracies. Yes, there were a number of them, but none of them detract from the central point of the story, which was the need to decide whether to fight or run when faced with oppression of the type exemplified by Santa Anna.

Thanks for posting marlbrouk.

" MEN JUST DIE OFF, BUT, LEGENDS , JUST GO ON TO LIVE FOREVER."---------------The Hero's who gave up, Their Lives at the Alamo March 6, 1836

I have watched this footage included in the bonus material of dvd version " The Alamon" And I surprised that a lot of cast of characters were still alive and well at that time when such dvd was released.

my god thats rare..thanks for posting mate its mint:)

I cried my eyes out seeing my hero die I find it hard to watch mr Wayne’s movies that he dies in 🙏🏻💕

In 1990 my wife and I took a raft trip down the Grand Canyon. The raft was a large inflated rubber raft that held about 20 people. The trip was conducted by three boatman who ran the raft, cooked our meals, and generally looked after us. The evening before the trip we all met for the first time and received a detailed briefing on what to expect. Being that the Grand Canyon is a National Park everything taken into the park must be consumed (food and water) or taken back out (trash and human excrement). In the briefing the boatman explained how to go number 2 in one of the large military ammunition cans which could be sealed to contain the human waste. They referred to the ammo can "potty" as "The Duke". Someone asked the briefer why they called it "The Duke"? He said that a few years before John Wayne had taken the same trip with them down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon and when getting briefed on the "potty procedure" the briefer kept referring to the ammo can "potty" as the "John". Wayne took exception to it and said he was insulted. Since then the ammo can "potty" has been referred to as "The Duke".

in the 80s i went to the filming location they built, it had the alamo and a western town you could walk thru it was a lot of fun went back a couple years ago it was closed down its sad

Honor dead man Alamo.❤😔🌷

The set for the filming of John Wayne's "Alamo", located in Brackettville, Texas, is long since closed down. The set and town is not available for a filming site anymore. I was an extra in two movies there. The family who owned it has passed on and all but the most solid buildings are falling apart. Of course the main structure is still there. I think it could be purchased and saved, but I am only guessing. I don't know who inherited the land and buildings.

My favourite film with the Duke watched all his films

Those 185 Texans, is a bunch of "Texas' Heroes!!!!" Everyone of the Actors, did an AWESOME acting!!!" All of them, knew they will "Died from threat, "Evil & DISGUSTING, Dictator name, Santa Ana," but they fought, for "Texas' Freedom." I love the part, where Colonial Travis-(Laurence Harvey), asked Davy Crockett-(John Wayne), Jim Bowie-(Richard Widmark), to choose to leave the "Alamo," or ride out the "Alamo," They all end up, got off the horses, & "Stand in between Travis."

The Alamo was an 18 th C. Catholic religious education facility. Happy Easter.

Sadly the full 3 hour, road show, director's cut that was discovered in the mid 90s of which this documentary was a part, is no longer on the market only the truncated version .

I visited the old movie set this past June 2022.

I live in San Antonio and remember as a kid watching the news on local TV about the filming in Brackettville. There was a report showing John Wayne tossing real hand grenades at the fake Alamo to simulate canon fire. If I'm not mistaken, Wayne was a southpaw. People have commented on the movie's authenticity and, of course, it's entertainment and not history. The fighting started early in the morning whereas the film shows the fighting in full daylight. Santa Anna wasn't about to send his men on a full-frontal attack when they could be easily seen. And the Mexican attack came from all sides.

John Waynes the alamo the greatest movie of All time i have the original movie on VHS from England 242 min runnig time

The issue at hand is to create the conditions which produce an 'Alamo ' for the Chinese ....

my only regret is that I was never a Texan....

Great video.

Come on AMERICA! What is happening to you? Did they die for nothing; for you to give it all away? Remember the ALAMO!

Thank you for this!

also Laurence Harvey was born in Estonia he could deliver shakespear nice clip . .

Dang. If Lawrence Harvey had just kept that "slightly Creole" accent he used in the Shakespeare joke, He'd have nailed Travis. But his South Afrikans dialect won out. And we lost.

"We need statesmen, not politicians." I also wholeheartedly agree with the Duke in that "living free meant a lot more to them than cowering in security".

great, underrated movie...should've won a few more Oscars (not that that means everything, but just saying)...it only won 'best sound'.....I think it should have also won for Cinematography, Song...and Score

I just love John Wayne's voice; plus he was Irish (God's people, to me)

I remember this, had that DVD at one time. Don't know what happened to it, wish I did!

Fact: The 1987 version of The Alamo was filmed in that same place as the John Wayne version....even John Wayne's youngest son Ethan appeared in the movie.

There were 257 defenders at the Alamo. I know that's not as sexy as 182, but that's the truth, plus there were Tejano defenders at the Alamo for all you left wing race baiters out there. Freedom and liberty have absolutely nothing to do with race. Those are fundamental characteristics of life that ALL peoples of all ethnicities desire!! Great video. I watched "The Alamo" right after it's release at an RKO theater in New Rochelle, NY with my friends in 1960, and with each volley of cannon fire from the Texan defenders that resulted in rows of attacking Mexican regulars biting the dust the entire movie theater went up in cheers! Those were the days!!

Mostly British immigrant and settlers were fighting there. Look at the names on the memorial if you ever get to see the real place. I asked a guide why were there so many British flags in the building, she told me because they were British ancestors and settlers.

I remember seeing this in a theater as a kid......but it had to have been later than 1960. I would have only been 5 at the time. Must've been at a Saturday matinee?

If no one else Texas should save it. It is history.

I was quite young when this film came out. Even then, I knew enough history to see its flaws. I prefer the 2004 film But John Wayne making his movie is a true epic!

He was a great American

This video is great, because it has scenes that were cut from the DVD Documentary.

Only Jon Wayne could play this classic Part Rip you roll always be rrmember😃😃💟and you brilliant be the best 👌 100prevent I 😃✋🧡✋

#remember the Alamo

San Antonio should tear down all the modern buildings built on the Alamo site. Them an authentic reproduction should be built again as it was.

Great man Great movie